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Utilising drab filters, crafty visual effects and impressive restraint, Hillcoat’s film is as emotionally devestating as it is visually stunning, thanks in large part to the wonderful cinematography by Javier Aguirresarobe (New Moon). There are no tidal waves demolishing Manhattan, no comets tearing off the spires of tall buildings and no scenes of mass panic and death. Instead, we have allusions to the apocalypse – even the flashback sequences before the collapse of civilisation are presented intimately and without destructive detail…

As guitarist/songwriter with Melbourne’s Boys Next Door, who then morphed into The Birthday Party (then on to collaborations with Lydia Lunch, to Crime and the City Solution, and These Immortal Souls, and then on to solo efforts), he was the man beside Nick Cave who served up the frightening sounds that scraped the back curtains with feedback and laid the sonic landscape…